Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Sula by Toni Morrison

19 reviews

calais_'s review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

PEACE (2024)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Hate crime, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

tashtasher's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Racial slurs, Grief, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

janainthebooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Forced institutionalization

amy_q13's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicide, Excrement, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Slavery and War

buud_w0rm's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The book is *to me* a commentary on needing the world to give the individual ( in this case a black woman in the 20s-40s) an identity, self, value and worth. Toni Morrison describes Sula as a whimsical instinctual girl who grows into a free woman.

Free in the sense of choosing her own responsibility or in her case choosing none. Nell however, takes on responsibilities that society expected of her and that’s the beginning of their divide.  Due to sulas promiscuity and betrayal, it initially lead me to root for Nell until Toni Morison reveals more of Nell’s own wicked nature. Morrison’s world building around the two women’s relationships even give more insight on who they are and asks the question, who is really judging of “good” and “bad”. This is a really really good friends to enemies story and the ending ughh💔 “All that time, all that time, I thought I was missing Jude.” “We was girls together,..”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Infidelity, Racism, and Toxic friendship

henrib11's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Self harm, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Moderate: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug use, Slavery, Blood, Excrement, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, War, and Classism

jkull_10's review against another edition

mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

kaynova's review against another edition

hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, and Toxic friendship

madyreadsig's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Death, Racism, and Toxic friendship

asililydying's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Homophobia